"How can we help the Third World in any meaningful way if we’re bankrupt and coming apart at the seams, if we become a Second or Third World country ourselves?"
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
What will America stand for in 2050?
The US should think long and hard about the high number of
Latino immigrants.
By Lawrence Harrison
It's not just a
short-run issue of immigrants
competing with citizens for jobs as
unemployment
approaches 10 percent or the
number of uninsured straining the quality of
healthcare. Heavy immigration from Latin
America threatens our cohesiveness as
a nation.
MEXICO WILL DOUBLE U.S.
POPULATION
By Tom Barrett
At the current rate of invasion (mostly through Mexico, but also
through Canada) the United States will be completely over run with illegal
aliens by the year 2025. I’m not talking about legal immigrants who follow US
law to become citizens. In less than 20 years, if we do not stop the invasion,
ILLEGAL aliens and their offspring will be the dominant population in the
United States.
FINISHING AMERICA OFF: THE
FOREIGN INVASION FOR “CHEAP” LABOR
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-fall-of-america-by-invitation-tens.html
Open the floodgates of our
welfare state to the uneducated, impoverished, and unskilled masses of the
world and in a generation or three America, as we know it, will be gone. JOHN
BINDER
But many
less-skilled migrants play their largest role by simply shifting small slices
of wealth from person to person, for example, by competing up rents in their
neighborhood or by competing down wages in their workplace. The crudest
examples can be seen in agriculture.
Overall, the
Washington-imposed economic policy of economic growth via immigration shifts
wealth from young people towards older people by flooding the
market with cheap
white-collar and blue-collar foreign labor.
"Critics argue that giving amnesty to 12 to 30 million illegal aliens in the U.S. would have an immediate negative impact on America’s working and middle class — specifically black Americans and the white working class — who would be in direct competition for blue-collar jobs with the largely low-skilled illegal alien population." JOHN BINDER
The
U.S.-born baby is, of course, a U.S. citizen, whose illegal alien parents are
eligible to receive, on the baby’s behalf, food stamps, nutrition from the
Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program, and numerous tax benefits,
including the EITC.
Most
importantly, the newborn is deportation insurance for its parents. Illegal
aliens facing deportation can argue that to deport one or more parents would
create an “extreme hardship” for the new baby. If an immigration officer
agrees, we’ve added a new adult to the nation’s population. At age 21 the
former birthright citizen baby can formally apply for green cards for parents
and siblings, and they, in turn, can start their own immigration chains.
US now has more Spanish speakers than Spain – only Mexico
has more
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/29/us-second-biggest-spanish-speaking-country
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US has 41 million native speakers plus 11 million who are bilingual
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New Mexico, California, Texas and Arizona have highest
concentrations
Is America Too Crowded?
Scott MorefieldScott Morefield
The Unspoken Truth: What Impeachment Exposed About Trump and 2020
Do you like crowds? When you take the kids to Disney World or Six Flags in the middle of summer, do you relish the idea of not being able to lift your arms without touching another person? Do you enjoy waiting two hours just to ride a two-minute ride? When you pull into the DMV, the doctor’s office, or your favorite restaurant, does your heart quietly skip a beat when there’s a line out the door? Does being stuck for hours in rush hour traffic in Los Angeles or any other major American city excite you? When you take your family on a picnic at the park, do you hope to see dozens or even hundreds of your fellow humans camped out by the lake, river, or woods? I mean, the more the merrier, right? Isn’t that the saying?
Sure, there are instances where crowds can be good, fun even, for a short time. A football game, a concert, a political rally, and even church are a few things that come to mind. Without a healthy number of people in a given city or town, things would dry up pretty quickly. We need each other in ways we can’t always define, and life lived alone would be a pretty dull life indeed. However, I think anyone with a lick of common sense can understand the difference between ‘enough’ people and, well, ‘too many damn people,’ and there are places in the world, and even in America, where the latter applies.
The United States, at over 330,000,000 people, has a population density of around 87 people per square mile. If that seems small, remember that the federal government actually owns about a third of this country’s land mass. Here are a few key comparisons: Mexico 166, Afghanistan 127, Brazil 64, Somalia 62, Sweden 59, Sudan 57, Russia 23, China 376, India 1,068, Bangladesh 3,015, Guatemala 420, Uganda 430, Canada 10. The world’s population density, excluding oceans and Antarctica but counting deserts, mountains, and other uninhabitable places, sits at around 142 people per square mile.
Some are higher than ours, some are lower. And yet, regardless of population density, migration patterns that would unsustainably grow nations are squarely aimed at us, and the rest of the West. In fact, a recent Gallup survey found that over 750 million people - 15 percent of the world’s adults - would like to migrate to another country if they could. Their top destination? The United States, at 158 million adults. Other would-be destinations include, in order, Canada, Germany, France, Australia, and the United Kingdom. Assuming just as many children as adults made the journey (it would likely be more), such a migration surge to the U.S. would almost double the size of our country.
Do you look at the sprawling poverty on the outskirts of major cities in India, or Bangladesh, or Mexico City, and wish there were more places in the United States like that? Unlimited migration, if allowed, would generally result in unsustainable waves of Third World residents moving to First World nations. As an example, Liberia has 4.5 million people and a manageable density of 119, yet 66 percent of that country’s adults would move if they could. Other countries half or more of its residents would ditch include Sierra Leone, Haiti, Albania, El Salvador, Congo, Ghana, Dominican Republic, Nigeria, Armenia, Honduras, Syria, and Kosovo.
Notwithstanding illegal immigration, which by and large remains unchecked, the United States admits well over one million legal immigrants every year. That’s larger than cities like San Jose, California, Austin, Texas, or Jacksonville, Florida. At the rate we allow for legal immigration, we could add a city the size of Los Angeles every three to four years.
Not only does such immigration strain America’s already crumbling infrastructure, debt levels, and social fabric, it also deteriorates our country’s natural resources and, quite frankly, its natural beauty. Fox News host Tucker Carlson noted as much in a segment that predictably triggered the ire of Media Matters last week. “Crowded countries are never beautiful countries,” Carlson observed. “The old environmental movement understood that, and [it] was why they campaigned for lower immigration levels … But the modern left and modern environmentalists care much more about identity politics than the actual physical environment, so they're pushing for open borders, because their donors want it.”
They want it for obvious reasons - to obtain and hold on to leftist power. They pretend to care about the environment - obviously a con game to, again, grab power - yet they want to import millions upon millions of people who currently produce a low carbon footprint into a country where they will have the means to produce an exponentially higher one. Some leftists, like Bernie Sanders, even have an uber-ironic term for it - “climate migrants.”
“The most bizarre part of all of this is that I thought that human beings are causing climate change,” Justin Haskins told Tucker Carlson during a discussion on the topic last week. “Well if that’s true, why are we bringing people from all over the world, where they produce CO2 emissions less per person in places like Mexico and Guatemala, why are we bringing them to the United States, where we produce CO2 emissions per person at a much higher rate? It doesn’t make any sense.”
Kevin Lynn, of a group called Progressives For Immigration Reform, contended that America’s general good-heartedness makes it difficult to tell people no when we feel so fortunate to be here ourselves. “But we have to,” he said, “because a billion people would move to the United States if they could.” It’s a number higher than the Gallup poll I cited above indicates, but my gut tells me that it’s probably right. After all, when you compare the state of affairs in America with most of the rest of the world, well, there’s no comparison.
But when is enough enough? A leftist will never give you a number. They’ll just say we need to admit “more.” Always “more.” Then they rely on the almost pathological altruism shared by most of America’s good-hearted citizens to slowly but surely shift the electorate in a way that guarantees leftist power for the foreseeable future.
But shouldn’t we care about the rest of the world, much if not most of which is mired in soul-crushing poverty? Of course, but no more than a lifeboat should take in more than its capacity to stay afloat. How can we help the Third World in any meaningful way if we’re bankrupt and coming apart at the seams, if we become a Second or Third World country ourselves?
Census
Bureau: Immigration Driving Half of U.S. Population Growth
Immigration to the United States is now driving
nearly half of all population growth in the country instead of increased birth
rates, the U.S. Census Bureau finds.
Census: Number of ‘majority Hispanic’ US counties doubles
by Paul Bedard
November 21, 2019
In the latest evidence of the effect Latin American
immigrants are having on the United States, the number of U.S. counties that
have turned majority Hispanic has doubled.
New Census Bureau data analyzed by the Pew Research Center
found that from 2000 to 2018, the number of majority Hispanic counties jumped
from 34 to 69.
What’s more, the overall number of U.S. counties that turned
majority minority-based, mostly Hispanic or African American, also surged to
151 from 110 in 2000. Most of those counties are in Southern California and
along the Mexico-U.S. border.
“Overall, 69 counties were majority Hispanic in 2018, 72 were
majority black and 10 were majority American Indian or Alaska Native. The
majority American Indian or Alaska Native counties are unique in that most have
experienced overall population declines since 2000, even as the share of
American Indian or Alaska Native residents in these counties remained fairly
flat,” said the Pew analysis.
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Other reports have shown that the share of immigrants, mostly
Hispanic, have continued to break records due to legal and illegal immigration
and the baby boom among new arrivals.
The majority black counties are also in the South, though
mostly from Louisiana and to the east.
“While the black share of the total U.S. population has not
changed substantially over the last two decades, the number of majority black
counties in the U.S. grew from 65 to 72 between 2000 and 2018. One contributing
factor may be migration of black Americans from the North to the South and from
cities into suburbs,” said Pew.
Census
Bureau: Immigration Driving Half of U.S. Population Growth
JOHN BINDER
Immigration to the United States is now driving
nearly half of all population growth in the country instead of increased birth
rates, the U.S. Census Bureau finds.
The latest Census Bureau estimates on the U.S.
population reveal that about 48.5 percent of all population growth is driven by
the country’s mass illegal and legal immigration policy, where more than 1.5
million foreign nationals are admitted to the country every year.
(Axios)
Axios analysis by Stef
Knight details the
growing share to which immigration is increasingly driving population growth
across the U.S. Since 2011, for example, the level to which immigration has
accounted for overall population growth has increased more than 13 percent.
According to
the Wall Street Journal analysis,
about nine percent of U.S. counties are growing solely because of immigration.
This concludes that about nine percent of counties have regional birth rates
that do not exceed the annual number of deaths in the area.
Similarly,
the Wall Street Journal notes,
more than half of all population growth in states like Florida, Ohio, Virginia,
Kansas, and Michigan, among others, is because of immigration.
Though
pundits have claimed that the country’s admittance of 1.2 million legal
immigrants a year is necessary to increase birth rates, researchers have found
that the growth of the immigrant population has little impact on birth rates.
Center for
Immigration Studies Director of Research Steven Camarota discovered in his latest study this year that
“immigrant fertility has only a small impact on the nation’s overall birth
rate,” citing that immigrants in the U.S. raise the nation’s birth rate for all
women by two births per 1,000 women.
“Immigration
has a minor impact because the difference between immigrant and native
fertility is too small to significantly change the nation’s overall birth
rate,” Camarota noted in the study.
At current
legal immigration levels, the U.S. population is set to hit an unprecedented 404 million residents by 2060 — including
a foreign-born population of 69 million.
The U.S.
does not have to rapidly increase its total resident population and
foreign-born population, as legal immigration moratoriums have been implemented in the past to give time for new
arrivals to properly assimilate to American life. Halting all immigration to
the country would stabilize the population to a comfortable 329 million
residents in the next four decades.
In a rising number of U.S. counties, Hispanic and black Americans are the majority
Non-Hispanic white Americans account for 60% of the U.S. population, but in a growing number of counties, a majority of residents are Hispanic or black, reflecting the nation’s changing demographics and shifting migration patterns.
In 2018, there were 151 U.S. counties where Hispanics, blacks or two much smaller racial and ethnic groups – American Indians and Alaska Natives – made up a majority of the population, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data. That was an increase from 110 such counties in 2000. The 41 counties that joined the list between 2000 and 2018 are all majority Hispanic or majority black. (For a full list of these counties, see the sortable table at the end of the post.)
Overall, 69 counties were majority Hispanic in 2018, 72 were majority black and 10 were majority American Indian or Alaska Native. The majority American Indian or Alaska Native counties are unique in that most have experienced overall population declines since 2000, even as the share of American Indian or Alaska Native residents in these counties remained fairly flat.
There were no U.S. counties where Asians accounted for more than half of the population, but in Honolulu County, Hawaii, the population was 42% Asian and 9% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander.
The South and Southwest of the United States hold most of the counties where Hispanic, black or indigenous people make up a majority of residents. These counties represent just 5% of the 3,142 counties in the U.S. and about half of the country’s 293 majority nonwhite counties (a figure that includes counties where multiple racial and ethnic groups combine to account for a majority).
About this analysis
Rapid growth in majority Hispanic counties
The number of majority Hispanic counties doubled between 2000 and 2018, from 34 to 69 – mostly in the South and West. In all but four of these 69 counties, the Hispanic share of the population grew during that period. The few counties that experienced declines saw only slight decreases, and no county that was majority Hispanic in 2000 fell below 50% Hispanic by 2018.
These trends are in line with the growth of the U.S. Hispanic population as a whole, which reached a new high in 2018 even as its rate of growth slowed. The Latino population grew at a faster rate than most other racial or ethnic groups during the 2000s, due to relatively high birth rates among Hispanic women and immigration from Latin America.
Related: See Pew Research Center’s U.S. population projections through 2065, which provide a look at immigration’s impact on population growth and on racial and ethnic change.
In 2018, Texas was home to the 10 counties in the U.S. with the largest shares of Hispanic residents. Starr County, home to about 65,000 people overall, had the largest concentration of Hispanic residents, at 96% of the population. Other counties where Hispanics accounted for an especially large share of residents included Webb (95%), Hidalgo (92%) and Cameron counties (90%) – all in Texas.
The Hispanic populations of some larger U.S. counties also grew between 2000 and 2018. San Bernardino County, California (population 2.2 million) was the most populous county to become majority Hispanic during this span. Osceola County, Florida (home to about 370,000) saw the largest percentage point increase in Hispanic residents during this time (26 points, rising from 29% to 55%).
The migrating U.S. black population
While the black share of the total U.S. population has not changed substantially over the last two decades, the number of majority black counties in the U.S. grew from 65 to 72 between 2000 and 2018. One contributing factor may be migration of black Americans from the North to the South and from cities into suburbs.
There are now 15 majority black counties that were not majority black in 2000. Among them, Rockdale County, Georgia, located about half an hour outside Atlanta, had the largest percentage point increase in the share of black residents (from 18% in 2000 to 55% in 2018). With about 930,000 residents, Shelby County, Tennessee, which contains Memphis, was the county with the largest population to become majority black.
The 10 counties with the highest shares of black residents in 2018 were in Mississippi (seven counties) Alabama (two) and Virginia (one). In these 10 counties, about 70% or more residents were black.
Meanwhile, eight counties that were majority black in 2000 are no longer. Three of these are large U.S. cities that the Census Bureau includes in its county estimates: Washington, D.C.; Richmond, Virginia; and St. Louis, Missouri. Washington (home to roughly 702,000 residents in 2018) saw a 19% increase in total population during that period, while its black population decreased by 9%. The city’s share of black residents declined by 15 percentage points, from 60% to 45%.
Majority American Indian or Alaska Native counties
In 2018, there were eight U.S. counties where more than half of the population was American Indian; two other counties were majority Alaska Native.
While majority Hispanic and black counties are growing in number, these predominantly American Indian or Alaska Native counties have experienced net population loss from 2000 to 2018. And one county that was majority American Indian or Alaska Native in 2000 is no longer: San Juan County, Utah, where the share of American Indian residents fell 8 percentage points, from 55% to 47%.
All 10 majority American Indian counties are located on or near reservation land in the Midwest and the West, and most have populations of fewer than 20,000 people. The exceptions are McKinley County, New Mexico, and Apache County, Arizona, both of which are home to about 72,000 people.
The two counties where the majority of residents were Alaska Native are both in rural Alaska: Bethel Census Area (population of roughly 18,000) and Nome Census Area (population of about 10,000).
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